"No posts found", "No pages found" with polylang 0.9

I installed the latest version 0.9.3, but still have the same problem as ‘bucketsofrain’ where the categories list remains empty when trying to add/edit a post. As soon as I select ‘show all languages’ it shows all the categories. Thanks for that ‘bucketsofrain’.

When selecting ‘show all languages’, I noticed the url change from:
https://somewebsite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1234&action=edit
to
https://somewebsite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1234&action=edit&lang=all

A temporary fix I use so that Editors of the website don’t have to select this every time is to add some javascript in the ‘Footer HTML’ section of the ‘WP Admin Theme’ plugin.

<script type='text/javascript'>
  var url = window.location.toString();
  var post = url.indexOf('post=');
  var edit = url.indexOf('action=edit');
  var lang = url.indexOf('lang=');
  if (post != -1 && edit != -1 && lang == -1) {
    window.location = url + '&lang=all';
  }
</script>

Hope this problem will be solved in a new release some time, I really love your plugin. Thanks.

About the previous post, I just realised that it still doesn’t doesn’t do me any good. When you do publish the post, it does not remember the category selected. I still have to go to the Quick Edit menu and select the category there, only then does it remember the category. Oops…

Could you test with the current development version (0.9.3.5) ?
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/polylang.zip

Hi Chouby,
I tried 0.9.3.5, but still with no luck, the behaviour is still the same.

I don’t know if this might have an impact, but I couldn’t set my categories to a specific language when creating new categories, it always gets set to the default language. I’m not sure if it is required to set new categories to a specific language?

Thanks for your help.

How I expect it to work:

When you create a new post, the first proposed language should be:

1. The default language if the language filter is set to “Show all languages”
2. The language chosen in the language filter otherwhise

When you are in the post edition panel:

1. The categories metabox should display only the categories in the post language. If you change the post language, the list of categories should change accordingly
2. If you create a new category, Polylang automatically affect it the current post language
3. If you select another option in the language filter in the admin toolbar, it should have no influence on your listed categories (bug corrected in 0.9.3.5)

When you are in the categories panel:

1. The categories are listed according to the language chosen in the language filter (bug introduced in 0.9.3.5 and corrected in 0.9.3.6
2. The first proposed language for a new category should be the language of the filter
3. The parent dropdown list displays only the categories in the same language as the category you want to create

When you are in the edit category panel:

1. The parent dropdown list displays only the categories in the same language as current category you are editing
2. The language filter should have no influence on parent dropdown list (bug corrected in 0.9.3.6)

Could you please again (sorry) download the new development version and tell me what’s working and what’s not?

Hi Chouby,

Before we continue, I just wanted to let you know about my setup. I used to run a single site install and everything worked great, but recently switched to a multisite install when I noticed the categories giving me trouble.

I use the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin to map my domains, can be found here.
My permalink structure is /%postname%/
I use a static front page.

I tested 0.9.3.8 on a single site & multisite install.

Answers to your questions:
A: On a Single Site Install
B: On a Multisite Install

When you create a new post, the first proposed language should be:

1. The default language if the language filter is set to “Show all languages”

A – Correct
B – Correct

2. The language chosen in the language filter otherwhise

A – Correct
B – Correct

When you are in the post edition panel:

1. The categories metabox should display only the categories in the post language. If you change the post language, the list of categories should change accordingly

A – Correct
B – Doesn’t show any categories in the category meta box, even after changing the language filter in the admin toolbar to “Show all languages”

2. If you create a new category, Polylang automatically affect it the current post language

A – Correct
B – Gets added to the categories, but the language is allways set to English, even though that is not my default language

3. If you select another option in the language filter in the admin toolbar, it should have no influence on your listed categories (bug corrected in 0.9.3.5)

A – Correct
B – Again, doesn’t show any categories in the category meta box

When you are in the categories panel:

1. The categories are listed according to the language chosen in the language filter (bug introduced in 0.9.3.5 and corrected in 0.9.3.6

A – Correct
B – Selecting any of the languages displays an empty category list, but selecting “Show all languages” displays all cetegories

2. The first proposed language for a new category should be the language of the filter

A – Correct
B – Correct

3. The parent dropdown list displays only the categories in the same language as the category you want to create

A – Correct
B – Allways empty, no matter what option I select in the language filter in the admin toolbar

When you are in the edit category panel:

1. The parent dropdown list displays only the categories in the same language as current category you are editing

A – Correct
B – Displays every category in every language

2. The language filter should have no influence on parent dropdown list (bug corrected in 0.9.3.6)

A – Correct
B – Correct, but still displays every category in every language

Hope this will help.

Hi Chouby,

I translated your plugin to Afrikaans, where can I send you the .mo & .po files?

That’s really a complete test! Is Polylang activated at network level? If yes, could you try to de-activate and reactivate the plugin? I just noticed a big bug if Polylang is activated at network level an sites are created after Polylang activation.

Thank you very much for the translation, you can use my contact form:
https://www.flabellina.com/polylang-contact/

Whooo hoooo!!! It works!!!

Polylang was activated at network level and I did add the new site afterwards, so I de-activated and re-activated the plugin at network level, and everything is working now exactly the way it should. I tested all your questions from earlier and all is working perfectly.

Thank you so much!

This bug should now be corrected in v0.9.4. Thank you very much for your great help!

Hallo. I couldn’t see any pages or posts after activating Polylang… So I tried to change the include/admin-filters file as someone here said.

An error message occurred:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION in /web/htdocs/www.artimimiche.com/home/wp-content/plugins/polylang/include/admin-filters.php on line 206

So i tried to undo the changes, but it still appeared.

I have another WP account, so in the other one I downloaded Polylang, i opened the adimn-filters file and copied / pasted the code. Nothing, the error still appears.
Even opening the WP account, i cannot manage anything now!

help me!

thank you

@artimimiche please don’t ask the same question on several threads. See my answer: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/parse-error-143

in case anyone else has this problem:
with the new update the media box when creating a new post/page showed no media again, commenting the above mentioned line in admin-filters.php fixed the issue for me.

Which versions of WordPress and Polylang?

i had wp 3.4.2 and installed polylang 0.9.7. – can’t remember which version of polylang was installed but i’m pretty sure I skipped 0.9.6 and 0.9.5 at least.